Permute

Permute

Senior Data Engineer

Chicago · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 117 days ago
PythonAWSMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsA/B TestingDesign Systems

About the role

  • We care as much about how you think and build as we do about your background.
  • The ideal candidate is someone who can reason through new data problems, prototype quickly, and build robust pipelines and infrastructure in a fast-moving startup environment.
  • This role is for builders who move quickly, think clearly in ambiguous situations, and take ownership of turning messy data and evolving requirements into reliable, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable data pipelines and infrastructure supporting AI and ML systems
  • Develop and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and storage systems for large-scale datasets
  • Build data platforms that support LLM systems, agent workflows, and model evaluation
  • Develop tooling for data quality, validation, monitoring, and observability
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and ML teams to deliver data systems that power AI features
  • Design systems that enable efficient experimentation, training, and evaluation of models
  • Optimize performance, reliability, and scalability of data infrastructure
  • Experience building scalable data pipelines and data platforms
  • 5+ years building and operating systems in AWS environments
  • Permute is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate the data infrastructure that powers production AI systems.

Requirements

  • Proficiency with Python and modern data infrastructure tools
  • Experience with:

Nice to have

  • Degree in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or a related technical field

Company info

  • Permute (www.permute.ai http://www.permute.ai)
  • Operate effectively in ambiguous, rapidly evolving startup environments
  • Strong background in data engineering and distributed systems
  • Strong foundation in algorithms, statistics, and data modeling
  • End-to-end production data platforms
  • Streaming and batch data processing systems
  • Data infrastructure supporting ML training, MLOps, evaluation, and deployment
  • Data quality, monitoring, and observability systems
  • Infrastructure supporting AI or LLM-powered applications

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